Category Archives: Daily Drama

To the uninitiated, bloggers may seem like tiny vessels adrift in a vast, indifferent sea of strangers. Strangers, yes, but not indifferent or uncaring. Every one of us dreams of life as it could be or seeks answers to the problems we face daily.

We can reach out and instantly touch each other’s lives in this high tech age.  It is a measure of our need for companionship that we form strong bonds with people thousands of miles away but as close to us as family in our mutual needs and dreams.

With the magic of our publishing platforms, we post our ideas, our fears, our most heartfelt wishes where unsleeping search engines find them and make them available to our unknown friends and soulmates in this shrinking world community we live in.

This network, this protocol-bound agreement we call the internet,  transforms all that partake of it. We can reach anyone, anywhere, if we ask the right questions or provide the right answers.

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It is with an unexpectedly heavy heart that I prepare to pull the plug on my old T1100 e-machine. This $400 wonder has been running non-stop for almost two years and has never failed me, until now. You see it … Continue reading →

Sunday morning after the storm, and the temperature is in the twenties. We are not going anywhere for a while as the walks and driveway are covered with an inch of frozen sleet. This Redbud in our front yard gleams … Continue reading →

If you believe in signs and portents, this ominous weather map should give you pause. (click on image to enlarge) I was watching the weather map loop and saw the usual display of snow and mixed weather morph suddenly into … Continue reading →